Synodic month length 29.59 days

Length of current 469 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 3 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than next lunation 470 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 8 December 2037 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠48°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠48°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠79.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after perigee

4 days after point of perigee on 3 December 2037 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 December 2037 at 16:34 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 382 843 km

Moon before descending node

11 days after its ascending node on 26 November 2037 at 17:38 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 December 2037 at 12:36 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

Moon in southern standstill

At 22:32 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-22.177°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2037. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠22.193° in its northern standstill point on 23 December 2037 at 09:44 in ♋ Cancer.